1459
221
WikiTok
https://wikitok.vercel.app/
2 years ago
957
1536
What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/what-s-happening-inside-nih
927
858
El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
https://ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-salvador-abandons-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-after-failed-experiment
417
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
https://danieldelaney.net/chat/
651
913
Apple Invites
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/introducing-apple-invites-a-new-app-that-brings-people-together/
631
184
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle2
617
542
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/04/google-ai-policies-weapons-harm
562
654
Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore
https://www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-the-trump-musk-treasury-payments-crisis-of-2025-not-read-only-access-anymore/
486
207
Infosec 101 for Activists
https://infosecforactivists.org
395
77
Open Deep Research
https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/tree/main/examples/open_deep_research
365
170
A Coup Is in Progress in America
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a-coup-is-in-progress-in-america/
362
72
The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access
https://gamehistory.org/vghf-library-launch/
359
301
Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
https://gist.github.com/rtfeldman/77fb430ee57b42f5f2ca973a3992532f
350
318
GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases
https://www.404media.co/forbidden-words-github-reveals-how-software-engineers-are-purging-federal-databases/
346
641
America desperately needs more air traffic controllers
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/business/air-traffic-controller-shortage/index.html
339
272
Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-03/vanguard-s-average-fee-is-now-just-0-07-after-biggest-ever-cut
280
101
The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)
https://freelansations.medium.com/the-story-of-the-ps2s-backwards-compatibility-from-the-engineer-who-built-it-ec39cf5a0353
270
236
Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02116.pdf
256
118
Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/popular-linux-orgs-freedesktop-and-alpine-linux-are-scrambling-for-new-web-hosting/
252
62
Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo
https://linusakesson.net/scene/nine/index.php
248
195
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-i-use-llms/
245
2
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/
54
Build a link blog like Simon Willison
https://xuanwo.io/links/2025/01/link-blog/
124
Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns
https://kubamartin.com/posts/introduction-to-the-jujutsu-vcs/
232
117
DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
https://modal.com/docs/examples/slack-finetune
229
129
Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M
https://www.voxnews.al/english/kosovabota/qeveria-po-e-planifikonte-prej-7-vitesh-kastoret-ndertojne-brenda-dy--i84652
76
Alibaba/T-HEAD's Xuantie C910: An open source RISC-V core
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/alibabat-heads-xuantie-c910
212
23
Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing
https://radfoam.github.io
208
25
Alan Turing's "Delilah" project
https://spectrum.ieee.org/alan-turings-delilah
198
58
Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42926359
196
98
I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators. Here's what showed up
https://electrek.co/2025/02/03/i-bought-a-container-full-of-chinese-electric-excavators-heres-what-showed-up/
191
227
How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop
https://gamechops.substack.com/p/how-spotify-killed-lo-fi-hip-hop
29
DeepRAG: Thinking to retrieval step by step for large language models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01142
186
31
OmniHuman-1: Human Animation Models
https://omnihuman-lab.github.io/
185
30
How to scale your model: A systems view of LLMs on TPUs
https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/
178
48
Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios
https://www.inkandswitch.com/ambsheets/
166
172
What's Going on at the FBI?
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--what-s-going-on-at-the-fbi
157
155
Words flagged in search of current NSF awards
https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/113943275616933776
33
OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10
https://owasp.org/www-project-non-human-identities-top-10/2025/
156
Show HN: Play with real quantum physics in your browser
https://quantum.orgsoft.org
144
100 Or so Books that shaped a Century of Science (1999)
https://web.mnstate.edu/schwartz/centurylist2.html
137
Nvidia open-source nanite: continuous level of detail (LOD) mesh library
https://github.com/nvpro-samples/nv_cluster_lod_builder
136
102
TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
https://www.psypost.org/tiktoks-algorithm-exhibited-pro-republican-bias-during-2024-presidential-race-study-finds/
135
219
Microsoft Is Dead (2007)
https://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
11
Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata
https://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-4-reading-tables-metadata
Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
https://travisbumgarner.dev/blog/leaving-aws
113
133
Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system
https://www.rawstory.com/musk-treasury-doge/
112
43
Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/dolni-vestonice-portrait-head-the-oldest-known-human-portrait-in-the-world
42
The Leaning Tower of New York
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/the-leaning-tower-of-new-york
132
Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-december-2024-update-results.html
97
Tapestry by Iconfactory
https://usetapestry.com/
95
93
Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1006805/f75d238e25728afe/
91
80
Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB
https://wadetregaskis.com/backblaze-seemingly-does-not-support-files-greater-than-1-tb/
90
8
How to prove false statements? (Part 1)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/04/how-to-prove-false-statements-part-1/
13
The evolution of annunciator signaling for telephones
https://www.calling315.com/annunicators
87
21
The APL Challenge
https://challenge.dyalog.com/
83
How does fentanyl get into the US?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg93nn1e6go
61
Reasons Not to Refactor
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/reasons-not-to-refactor
78
36
Securing edge device systems, including firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways
https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/4052657/joint-publications-focus-on-mitigation-strategies-for-edge-devices/
34
YouTube restores SineVibes channel after Peter Kirn & Ars Technica get involved
https://bsky.app/profile/sinevibes.bsky.social/post/3lhc6l3caps2l
27
Nontraditional Red Teams
https://zachholman.com/posts/red-teams